My long weekend run was the longest yet - 7.25miles down the Taff Trail to Cardiff Central train station and back, taking in the Riverside Farmers' market (tempted to stop for french crepe but I resisted!) and Llandaff fields along the way. I passed a 5K charity run and wished I had known about it (lovely yellow t-shirts!). There was an element of ad-libbing in the route I took, especially as I had planned only to run to the castle and back. It felt nice to realise that I am starting to enjoy it enough to add that little extra rather than just run the distance and get home...and I still had energy in my legs for a huge sprint for home at the end.
My midweek run was going to be some fartlek, but for one reason or another that didn't happen, so it was a Friday hilly road run instead, 5.25miles around Fairwater. A fairly good run for a hills-newbie like myself.
Sunday I did a variation on a run I had planned in my head a long while ago - up to Coryton roundabout (M4 J32) and down the Taff Trail - 10K on tired legs after the hilly run on Friday. No energy left for more than thudding along for the last km.
I'll hopefully add these runs to my other gmaps pedometer runs on the right hand side of the blog soon.
My ambition is to combine the two weekend runs ultimately and thus run up to the M4, all the way down the Taff Trail to the castle, and back to Llandaff Weir. That (doing a quick calculation in my head) should make a half marathon!
(my two successive weekend runs combined to form a tentative half marathon!)
But I have a long way to go before I attempt that...
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